kagi at least tries to remove ai slop and gives you the means to report it.

What I don’t understand is YouTube showing me constant ads for something I’ve already bought and like. I’m not buying more earplugs, compression socks, and sports shorts any time soon.

tbh, I’ve been tempted to have a nipple-ectomy. They’re just annoying to deal with.

Then my chest will be socially acceptable viewing material no matter my cup size and gender presentation, right?

Article from 2014 says it was a factory accident to an 18 year old worker. CW: pictures of his hands post-repair but still bloody.

first link is my attempt to keep the preview from coming up, which didn’t work on my app. :(

LPT: using a small vibrator on your sinuses can also help. It loosens the mucus up like shaking ketchup in a bottle.

ooh, ooh! Ace here. I went through a period where sex was my special interest. I went deep down the research rabbit hole, learned all about sex toys and methods and safer sex techniques. Had willing partners.

At the end of the day, sex is boring and no one is hot/of an attracting gender. I guess it’s like if you were a super straight man and everyone else was men? I don’t know.

Now I’m into knitting and kumihimo.

My tiny old man dog refuses to set foot out the door into the snow. He uses a pee pad in the bathroom like a sensible pup. This also comes in handy at 3 am when he needs to pee but is too polite/quiet to wake me.

/me laughs in POTS. I had four 30 oz tumblers of electrolyte water before noon today. (0.94 gallons aka 3.5 liters) And yes, I pee constantly.

I think folks just don’t read them. I use Connect and it shows usernames.

Yep, no shade on you, I just didn’t want the other person to think they’d heard back from the other other person.

Yes, how dare someone want to buy dog food without asking for help.

(the account you just replied to isn’t the account with the blind wife who uses prosthetics)

Yes, and anyone that buys these glasses to increase their independence is a predator, like the parent poster says. /s

The glasses seem like a better form factor than a hand-held phone, for the use case where you’re out and about and your hands are full, managing a service dog harness and/or cane, and trying to shop.

So, I guess you could mount your special phone for the blind on your chest or waist and have it talk to bone conductive headphones you’re wearing. And pick up whatever you’d like described and hold it in front of your chest/waist.

(There’s other options, the glasses just seem more convenient because they’re on your face.)

TBH, I’m also not sure what they meant. The only visual prostheses I know of are things like glass eyes. Maybe “prosthesis” is their term for eyeglasses or contact lenses?

edit: or there are neat things that integrate into your brain to give you sight. So maybe one of those?

A meter is about the length of a yardstick.

I’ve heard those sorts of glasses can be handy if you’re visually impaired and, say, clothes shopping. You can ask the glasses “hey, do these items match?”

Still creepy in the wild, but there are some valid use cases.

edit to add examples:

• https://youtube.com/shorts/XXzABpSE3TA The glasses give meh guidance for walking, but seem handy for reading a menu at a restaurant
• https://youtube.com/shorts/Vcatcvvkqac she demos shopping for dog treats and recording video when a car almost hits her

Yes, and then the good stuff is more likely to survive through the ages and be shown off. I think that’s what parent poster meant.

I hated that box. It was red and we’d just slump down in our chairs to look under it.

The thing that really helped my touch typing was playing MUDS: nothing like a textual goblin attacking you to encourage you to quickly type “kill goblin”.

One of my coworkers claimed to have CRS Syndrome: Can’t Remember Shit syndrome. /true but joking